Port Arthur massacre (Australia) The Port Arthur massacre of 28–29 April 1996 was a mental illness fueled killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded in a shooting, stabbing, arson and carjacking spree armed with 2 rifles.

February 2, 1996, in Moses Lake, Washington, a fourteen-year-old named Barry Loukaitis walked into Frontier Middle School dressed in a black duster and carrying two handguns, seventy-eight rounds of ammunition, and a hunting rifle. He killed two students and wounded a third before shooting his algebra teacher in the back. (New Yorker) Court ruling could set Moses Lake school shooter free KREM January 22, 2016 Barry Loukaitis is serving a life sentencing for killing a teacher and two fellow students at Frontier Middle School when he was just 14-years-old on February 2, 1996. Supreme Court recently ruled teenagers younger than 16-years-old cannot be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Juvenile cannot serve more than 25 years according to the recent court ruling.

32 shot, 16 killed, suspect suicide March 13 1996Dunblane school massacre Thomas Watt Hamilton was a Scout leader was fired after being suspected as a pedophile with immoral "intentions towards boys", and blamed loss of his shops on rumours. In apparent revenge, he shot 32 people, killing sixteen children and one teacher at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland before committing suicide in the one of the deadliest firearms incidents and worst school attack in UK history. Hamilton severed telephone wires with a set of pliers before entering and walking towards the gymnasium armed with four legally held handguns and 743 cartridges of ammunition. A total of 32 people sustained gunshot wounds, 16 were fatally wounded. One other child died before reaching the hospital. Public debate about the killings resulted in new laws which effectively made private ownership of handguns illegal in Britain. No connection to terrorism or mental illness.

June 25, 1996. Khobar Towers bombingterrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, located near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran on June 25, 1996. At that time Khobar Towers was being used as quarters for foreign military personnel. A truck-bomb was detonated adjacent to Building #131, an eight-story structure housingUnited States Air Force personnel from the 4404th Wing (Provisional), primarily from a deployed rescue squadron and deployed fighter squadron. In all, 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and 498[1] of many nationalities were wounded. Although al-Qaeda has been described by some sources as the likely culprit, the official June 25, 1996 statement by the United States named members of Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (English: Party of God in the Hijaz)[2][3] as responsible. In 2006, a U.S. court found Iran and Hezbollah guilty of orchestrating the attack.[4] (wikipedia)

July 12, 1996 Fourth Bomber Convicted Ratigan Found Guilty Of Bank Robbery And Attack On Planned Parenthood Clinic The Spokesman-Review October 1, 1997 Tags:anti-government Constitutionalists domestic terrorism Brian Ratigan faces at least 50 years in federal prison for bombing a family planning clinic and robbing a bank in the Spokane Valley. The former Army sniper was convicted Tuesday of igniting a pipe bomb outside a Planned Parenthood clinic on July 12, 1996, and carrying a semiautomatic assault rifle during the $37,000 robbery of U.S. Bank minutes later. Ratigan was one of four involved in the domestic terrorism

July 27, 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia on July 27 during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The blast claimed 1 life and injured 111 people, while another person died of a heart attack. It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the bomb before detonation and cleared most of the spectators out of the park. Rudolph, a carpenter and handyman, had detonated three pipe bombs inside an ALICE Pack. Motivated by what he considered to be the government's sanctioning of "abortion on demand," Rudolph wanted to force the cancellation of the Olympics. After the bombings, Jewell was falsely implicated as a suspect by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the news media focused aggressively on him as the presumed culprit. However, in October 1996, Jewell was cleared of all charges. Following three more bombings in 1997, Rudolph was identified by the FBI as the suspect. In 2003, Rudolph was arrested and tried before being convicted two years later. Rudolph was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for his crimes.